Stanley Hubert DENT, Jr.

(1869-1938)

DENT, Stanley Hubert, Jr.,
a Representative from Alabama; born in Eufaula, Barbour County,
Ala., August 16, 1869; attended the common schools, and was
graduated from Southern University (later known as Birmingham
Southern College), Greensboro, Ala., in 1886; was graduated from
the University of Virginia Law School at Charlottesville in 1889;
was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced in Eufaula,
Ala., until 1899; moved to Montgomery, Ala., in 1899 and continued
the practice of his profession; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1901; prosecuting attorney for
Montgomery County 1902-1909; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention in 1908; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to
the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1921);
chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Sixty-fifth Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1920; resumed the
practice of law in Montgomery, Ala.; served as president of the
State constitutional convention for repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment in 1933; died in Montgomery, Ala., on October 6, 1938;
interment in Eufaula Cemetery, Eufaula, Ala.